We visit Dr Margaret Stone's national collection of asters in Worcester with Rachel de Thame, and have a good wonder around her beautiful garden at Brockamin. Tashi Dhondup in Stroud gives us a tour of his stunning garden and shows us his collection of meconopsis before Eric in Normandy France shows us his garden where he uses the no-dig method. Jilly McNaughton gives us a masterclass on building successful wildlife ponds and shows us her two at Sheepcote Green House in Saffron Waldon, Essex where she has numerous aquatic plants and a family or two of great crested newts. Finally Adam takes us to the stunning Peckover House and Gardens in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, where we meet Louise Gardner, the head gardener and understand how they're recreating the gardens from old photos and paintings by George Samuel Elgood.

Some links:

Dr Margaret Stone

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/34641/brockamin

Jilly McNaughton

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/42210/sheepcote-green-house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwPoe4IlVEE

Peckover House and Gardens

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cambridgeshire/peckover-house-and-garden

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On this week’s episode of Good Ol’ Chit-Chats, Mandy from Incredible Vegetables takes us to her dream garden made up of weird and wonderful “edimentals”, most of which we hadn’t heard of (apparently duck potatoes are a thing). Perennial kale has an unusual use and the walking onions blew our tiny minds🤯 Our Incredible Vegetables shopping list has been written.

Some links:

Incredible Vegetables

https://incrediblevegetables.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/incredible_vegetables/

Baddaford Farm Collective

https://www.baddaford.co.uk/

The forest garden Mandy visited on Samsø

https://www.inspiratoriet.org/about/

https://youtu.be/AtNLgcsqmXg?feature=shared

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This week we travel to Herefordshire with Sue Kent to meet Layla Robinson at her incredible dried flower studio and Scott Thompson shows us around his immersive garden, Fern Bank in Wirksworth, Matlock. Astrid and Frankie Drummond give us a guided tour of their beautiful garden and triangular compost bin in Sheffield before Joe Swift takes us to the incredible Church Gardens in Harefield where Patrick and Kay McHugh show us the extensive work they've done to restore the walled gardens. Finally Leyla Kazim shows us around her 5m by 7m South West London garden equipped with numerous edibles as well as her "postage stamp meadow".

Some links mentioned:

Green Manure

https://www.rhs.org.uk/soil-composts-mulches/green-manures

Layla Robinson

https://www.laylarobinson.com/

https://www.91magazine.co.uk/meet-the-maker-layla-robinson/

Scott Thompson and Beccy Owen

https://ngs.org.uk/gardens/fern-bank-de4/

Patrick and Kay McHugh

https://ngs.org.uk/gardens/church-gardens-ub9/

https://www.churchgardens.co.uk/

Leyla Kazim

https://leylakazim.substack.com/

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Chris from Grow Cardiff joins us for a Good Ol’ Chit-Chat this week! Chris was on Gardeners’ World earlier this year tackling his astro lawn and in this episode we find out a bit about his work with Grow Cardiff and the fantastic support the charity provides others to transform uninspiring urban areas into productive, nature-filled, buzzing hubs that serve their community. We also hear what Chris’ dream garden would look like, which involves a shed to beat all sheds🍺

Some links:

Horatio's Garden

https://www.horatiosgarden.org.uk/

RHS Rosemoor

https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/rosemoor

Bute Park

https://bute-park.com/

Dyffryn Gardens

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/dyffryn-gardens/the-gardens-at-dyffryn

Cardiff Salad Garden

https://cardiffsaladgarden.co.uk/

Pipes (Taff Temptress)

https://www.instagram.com/pipesbeer?igsh=c3A0cTFiMHhkbnc1

Grow Cardiff

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https://www.facebook.com/share/eQygeXQsmQNPtiba/?mibextid=LQQJ4d

https://x.com/growcardiff?s=21&t=uTDhn57b-3CR2RP4oQkwRw

https://www.growcardiff.org/health-wellbeing/

Grow Well Cardiff

https://x.com/growwellcardiff?s=21&t=uTDhn57b-3CR2RP4oQkwRw

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Arit and Adam are at East Ruston Old Vicarage in Norfolk where we meet the inspiring owners Alan Gray and Graham Robeson. Rekha gives us an update on her successes and failures in the her veggie garden in the Peak District and we visit the incredible Fifty Shades of Green garden owned by Annemarie and Andrew Swift in Walsall. Finally Carol gives us another masterclass on propagation, this time showing us the wizardry of leaf cuttings.

Some links from the episode:

East Ruston Old Vicarage

https://eastrustonoldvicarage.co.uk/

Perennial

https://perennial.org.uk/

Rekha Mistry

https://www.instagram.com/rekha.garden.kitchen/

Fifty Shades of Green

https://ngs.org.uk/gardens/fifty-shades-of-green-ws4/

Carol Klein

https://www.instagram.com/the_carol_klein/

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Mary from Burrow Farm Gardens describes her dream garden this week, which is very similar to her wonderful gardens in Devon! We hear about her champion tree, her family tradition of primroses, her love of dogs and her childhood interest in gardening, especially pansies.

Here's a link to Mary's place:

https://burrowfarmgardens.co.uk/the-gardens/

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This week sees us jealous of Nick's immaculate new garden before we visit Martha Swales' inspiring urban plot in Lewisham. Dan Cartwright gives us a tour of the beautiful Arts and Crafts gardens at Winterbourne House and Garden in Birmingham and Frances takes us along with her to meet Josh Sparkes in his experimental acres at Birch Farm in Devon.

Here are some links from the episode:

Martha Swales

https://www.instagram.com/marfskitchengarden/

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/463153/give-it-a-grow-by-swales-martha/9780241710364

Winterbourne House and Gardens

https://www.winterbourne.org.uk/explore/botanical-garden/

Josh Sparkes

https://www.instagram.com/joshua_sparkes/

https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/article/joshua-sparkes-birch-farm

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Melanie from Aeonium Mellie took us for a fantastical tour through her dream garden on this episode of a Good Ol' Chit-Chat! We were immersed in a magical world of dingle dells, guard-swans and disappearing frog-bits. Unforgettable!

Here are some links to some of the people and places Mellie mentioned:

Lullingstone Castle

https://www.lullingstonecastle.co.uk/

Debs Ednie

https://ivyhatchplantsupplies.weebly.com/

John Massey

https://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/visit-us/johns-garden/

National Botanical Garden of Wales

https://botanicgarden.wales/

More from Mellie

https://www.instagram.com/aeonium_mellie/

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